The Missing Link (built by Jason Dante Bardis) fights Ziggo in the 60lb lightweight division of BattleBots season 1.0. The Best of the Infernolab Disc 1 Video 10 (c) BattleBots & Comedy Central
@voidcadet Indeed. That was composite ballistic armor, intended to stop bullets shot normal to its surface. It worked poorly when chewed from the side. Missing Link had 5 modular attachments at this event. The scuba spear guns & chainsaw & circular saw would have been destroyed, so I went with the long stick & the pair of short sticks. Contacting Ziggo with the long stick just spun Missing Link around--I couldn't hold the armor against him to slow him down. -Jason
I'll go out on a limb and guess the "blunt object on a stick" was intended to act like ablative armor.
voidcadet 3 weeks ago
@voidcadet Indeed. That was composite ballistic armor, intended to stop bullets shot normal to its surface. It worked poorly when chewed from the side. Missing Link had 5 modular attachments at this event. The scuba spear guns & chainsaw & circular saw would have been destroyed, so I went with the long stick & the pair of short sticks. Contacting Ziggo with the long stick just spun Missing Link around--I couldn't hold the armor against him to slow him down. -Jason
infernolab 3 weeks ago